Tokyo Film Festival Launches Women’s Empowerment Section
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Tokyo International Film Festival will launch its first Women’s Empowerment section. This year’s edition of the festival will also showcase the works of (male) director Irie Yu in its Nippon Cinema Now strand.
Film festivals in Asia have been slower than their North American and European counterparts to bake diversity, equality and inclusion principles into their structures and selections.
But, in 2021, the Tokyo festival became the first Asian film festival to sign with Collectif 50/50, an international organization promoting gender equality in the film industry.
Now, the festival says that the Women’s Empowerment section “will take TIFF a further step forward on gender issues [..] celebrate women’s achievements and [..] further expand the horizons of future cinema.” Co-hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan government, Women’s Empowerment will highlight films directed by female filmmakers and/or on female-focused films.
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